2024 CrowdStrike incident
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2024-crowdstrike-incident-205-6497467
title:
2024 CrowdStrike incident
text:
On 19 July 2024, American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike distributed a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor security software that caused widespread problems with Microsoft Windows computers running the software. As a result, roughly 8.5 million systems crashed and were unable to properly restart in what has been called the largest outage in the history of information technology and "historic in scale". The outage disrupted daily life, businesses, and governments around the world. Many industri
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Global computer systems outage
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident
date created:
2024-07-19T07:33:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T10:52:44Z
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